Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dozens of students coming in everyday to get catalogs, complaining that they neverarrived at home; that's not supposed to happen.And [the students] do seem to be overwhelminglyfrom the Northeast...
...arrow and reduced wind resistance. But after radical sports-gear breakthroughs (big-head tennis racquets and golf clubs, high-back plastic ski boots), the improvements are marginal and often largely cosmetic. Mountain bikes, for instance, are madly popular everywhere, but they are not really all that useful in the Northeast, where mountain trails are brutal and steep, composed mostly of rocks the size of refrigerators. You can't navigate them with a bike or, for that matter, with a humvee (the ultimate gearmobile, short of James Bond's Aston Martin with its ejecto seat...
...Assistant Secretary of Energy. O'Toole's nomination has been held up by two Republican Senators because -- and follow this closely, please -- she belongs to a study group that once had the name Marxist Feminist Group. The group, which meets about three times a year, changed its name to Northeast Feminist Scholars years before O'Toole joined it. The Administration wrote the Senate that O'Toole "has never endorsed Marxist theory, nor has she ever had the impression that any other members of N.F.S. held such a belief." Why the political beliefs of other members of a three-times...
Reaction to the aliens act has been swift and shrill. In the northeast border region around Narva, where ethnic Russians constitute 95% of the population, local Russians plan to hold a plebiscite this week on the question of regional autonomy -- a move the Estonians have denounced as "unconstitutional." Western governments have voiced concern about growing discrimination against minorities. But the harshest rebuke has come from Moscow, where Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev denounced the law as "quiet apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing in white gloves...
...culture shock. I didn't grow up in Massachusetts, you see. I didn't go to pre-college school in the Northeast. My friends from high school, for the most part, didn't go to Vassar and Wellesley or Dartmouth. Before coming to Harvard, I had never even seen crew, much less understood the significance of the term "The Head of the Charles...